We need media industry overhaul, and fast

It has been another week of unremitting negativity on the airwaves and newspapers that supposedly serve Irish society.

This four-year trek into the darkness has developed momentum. Sub-editors compete with each other to concoct the most damaging and alarming headlines possible in the pursuit of circulation figures. It is a corrosive and unbalanced agenda that should be challenged at every turn.

I’m a glass half-full type. My life has been full of the ups and downs that most people in Irish society experience. It started with very mixed education results. Then lots of my friends had to emigrate.